Danged ticks

[Jeepnik]

We have ticks here, but they aren't near the problem they are elsewhere. But the thing I have the greatest aversion to are leaches. Don't ask me why, they just creep me out. Fortunately we also don't have a lot of those either. But I've been a few places where they abound. I don't intend to go back there.

 

[TheTexasRAT]

We have ticks here, but they aren't near the problem they are elsewhere. But the thing I have the greatest aversion to are leaches. Don't ask me why, they just creep me out. Fortunately we also don't have a lot of those either. But I've been a few places where they abound. I don't intend to go back there.

We had scorpions all over the place in the Austin Texas area.

Every day before putting our shoes on we would turn them upside down and beat the bottom sides while violently shaking them to get them buggers out.

But I will take rattlesnakes and scorpions over ticks any day!

 

[mirglip]

But I will take rattlesnakes and scorpions over ticks any day!

I lived in Texas most of my life before I moved to Montana. Keeping safe from rattlesnakes and scorpions is much more difficult than eating garlic. I'll take the ticks, all they do is tickle me.

 

[Ride1949]

Tics mainly around the streams and rivers here on the High Desert. Check yourselves and your dogs after you leave the area. Not a lot of them, but enough to be a bother.

 

[MaxMan]

My nephew got limes disease from a tick. Out of school for almost 2 years just now coming back but not all the way. Watch em.

 

[MaxMan]

If you got a whole bunch of them, send them to Washington DC there you have poly tocks or a whole bunch of blood suckers.

 

[stonebuster]

Lyme is the closest town to a restricted Island that is home to an animal disease research facility. Speculation is Lyme disease was a bio weapon that escaped.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/...yme-disease-1960s-house-aims-find-out/158529/

I took a ride with my wife on our boat thru Plum gut passing close to Plum Island 20yrs ago. My wife spent 26 years working in a research & development laboratory. When she saw all those tanks on the outside of the buildings and all the ventilation stacks coming out of the rooftops, she was shocked and said to me they have very scary snit in there.

 

[M77-375LH]

I’ve been picking ticks off our Great Pyrenees dog for about a month now
Seem to be mostly on her head area

 

[Jack Ryan]

I've been picking ticks off our Great Pyrenees dog for about a month now
Seem to be mostly on her head area

Instead of a tick magnet, turn that dog in to a tick killing machine AND KEEP HER FROM GETTING LYME if she doesn't already have it. Chronic Lyme's will turn a young dog in to an old, hurting cripple before her time.

https://www.chewy.com/nexgard-plus-...erm=4585032215651235&utm_content=NexGard Plus

 

[RugerForMe]

Growing up in the 1970's, 80's and into the early '90's I never even saw a tick, I had a stupid Lab that we did nothing but walk the fields and woods, hunting and fishing. She would start crying as soon as she lost sight of me. We as in all the kids around us would lay in the fields and watch the stars almost every night, none of us ever had a tick on us. After my Lab passed I was gifted a Rottweiler / German Shepherd 50/50 mix. He was a giant at 135lbs. He and I were always outside also. Jump forward to 1997 I found a tick on me after a day of opening up my shooting lanes. After that they just seemed to multiply like crazy. Would have one or two on me everytime I did anything out of the yard, and one time I picked 20 off my dog after just a short walk along the fence lines.

 

[mirglip]

Growing up in the 1970's, 80's and into the early '90's I never even saw a tick, I had a stupid Lab that we did nothing but walk the fields and woods, hunting and fishing. She would start crying as soon as she lost sight of me. We as in all the kids around us would lay in the fields and watch the stars almost every night, none of us ever had a tick on us. After my Lab passed I was gifted a Rottweiler / German Shepherd 50/50 mix. He was a giant at 135lbs. He and I were always outside also. Jump forward to 1997 I found a tick on me after a day of opening up my shooting lanes. After that they just seemed to multiply like crazy. Would have one or two on me everytime I did anything out of the yard, and one time I picked 20 off my dog after just a short walk along the fence lines.

Some dogs are tick magnets and others will hardly ever get a tick. I don't know why. Also, natural events like early frost or drought or predators or whatever could kill off ticks in a region and take decades to get re-established.
Although garlic is a great tick repellent for humans, never give it to dogs, it's toxic for them.

 

[MaxMan]

Instead of a tick magnet, turn that dog in to a tick killing machine AND KEEP HER FROM GETTING LYME if she doesn't already have it. Chronic Lyme's will turn a young dog in to an old, hurting cripple before her time.

https://www.chewy.com/nexgard-plus-...erm=4585032215651235&utm_content=NexGard Plus

My 13 year old nephew learned that the hard way. He had to give up music (Saxaphone) out of school. his parents were fortunate enough that they could tag team working at home.

 

[Don Lovel]

I got into a gazillion seed ticks trying to fix the cattle water tank down in a draw by a spring in Arkansas. I stripped down sprayed my entire body with WD40, put my clothes in the truck bed and drove nekid down to the swimmin hole and used a bunch of Dr Bronner peppermint soap. I set off 2 bug bombs in the cab of my pickup and my girlfriend picked 5 tiicks off me.
Nuke them from orbit

 

[wheelgun1958]

No wonder you people get ticks.

Use permethrin on your shoes and pants. Buy it at the farm store and mix it down to .o5%. So long as it looks milky when you shake it up thats good. If you still get some, mix it stronger next time. Do NOT use it on your bare skin.

Shirt and hat to if you are deep in to them. THEY DO NOT DROP OUT OF THE TREES. They climb up any vegetation they are closest to up to the top or the height of the their target victims, and then they wait for you to brush against it. They can wait there for YEARS if they need to.

All the rest of this thread is bull c... likely to leave you with Lyme or alpha-gal syndrome.

I buy the veterinary strength (10% Permethrin) and dilute it 1:19. Spray clothes and shoes completely until soaked and dry over night.

 

[Jeepnik]

Well, I want to keep breathing so Permethrin is a no go for me. Allergic.

 

[eveled]

Some spotted dogs only get ticks on one of their colors.